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This short light painting clip called Light Warfare has gone nuclear, garnering 1 million views in just a few days. Why? For me, it’s the light bazooka explosion 48 seconds in, along with this amusing making of video: (Check this second clip at about 1:15 to enjoy the artistry at work—what looks like a big…
According to many reports, AT&T subscriptions that weren’t eligible for phone upgrades until all the way in November have been expedited to times in June (one report was June 20th, to be precise). BUY NEW THINGS! [coolgeex and MacRumors]
These are the paintings of Japanese artist Tetsuya Ishida. Edit: These are the crazy surrealistic portraits of the angst and fear in our technology-driven world, by Japanese nightmare creator Tetsuya Ishida. His paintings contain the stuff that withers my happiness. That last one is how imagine the dorms and life at the Foxconn factory. [Tetsuya…
Guitar Hero: Warriors Of Rock brings with it more than just 90 new tracks and some additional game modes; it’ll include the biggest controller redesign since the original title in the franchise. And it’s axelicious. While new Guitar Hero games will continue to be backward compatible with older guitars—all of the buttons remain unchanged—the new…
What difference does an inch make? If you ask Samsung, quite a bit apparently. The leaked 7-inch Galaxy Tab tablet will be joined by an 8-inch and 10-inch model several months after the August launch pitted for the 7-inch Android. They’ll go on sale first in South Korea in December, according to the Korea Herald,…
Also known as the Satellite A665 in Europe, the TX/98MBL is a 15.6-inch laptop with 3D Blu-ray playing compatibility. There may be few 3D Blu-rays out there at the moment to watch, but Toshiba’s putting the hardware up first. The display is a 15.6-inch TruBrite LED-backlit panel with a 1366 x 768 resolution, running on…
Speed has been one of the oft-talked about points of the upcoming 3DS, but according to “several developers” who spoke to IGN, it’ll have processing speeds similar to that of the PS3 and Xbox 360. IGN said they’ve heard the speed of the 3DS will “far exceed the Nintendo Wii,” which runs on an IBM…
Think the HTC EVO 4G is pricey? Wait until you hear that the Ulysse Nardin Chairman phone doesn’t even run Froyo—instead favoring 2.1. CrunchGear got busy with a camcorder, discovering your $50k will also buy you a dock. The dock is unlike one we’ve ever seen before, with polished wood panels, speakers and even USB…
Potholes, while ruining tires and causing intense levels of irritation, could be put to good use soon, if Levant Power Corporation’s plans to develop a shock absorber that harnesses the energy made from potholes’ jolts actually go ahead. We first heard of Levant Power Corporation’s CEO Shakeel Avadhany‘s plans last year, when he was an…
The last couple of years, the internet has been swept up in rumors of an external multitouch touchpad peripheral being announced by Apple, and today—on the dawn of WWDC—photos showing just that have been leaked. In fact, it was John Gruber last October who described of a “I’m-Not-Sure-I-Really-Believe-It-Myself Out-There Rumor, Maybe Even Some Sort of…
According to the NY Times, HP will be announcing printers—and I’m not joking here—”built for the iPhone age.” Each printer, ranging from $99 to $400, will have its own email address for sending documents to. It’ll help aid printing from devices like iPads and iPhones, and will enable printing of Google Documents and other web-based…
Initially announced for South Korea, Motorola’s XT720 has been announced for Europe under the Milestone brand—which follows the rebadged Droid which launched last year. It’s got an 8MP camera, and is the first Android with a Xenon flash. It’ll be running Android 2.1 without MOTOBLUR, and will go on sale in Europe this quarter, and…
News just in—the HTC EVO 4G has officially been more loved on launch day than the Palm Pre. While queues were around the block for many Sprint stores selling the webOS phone last June, it wasn’t any match for the HTC EVO 4G. Friday saw the most sales for any one phone sold at Sprint…
First they were offered 20 per cent. Then, 30 per cent. Then Apple was rumored to be chipping in to help out. Now, it’s being reported that Foxconn is offering employees another 66 per cent performance-based pay rise. From 900 Yuan ($132) salary a month, the 66 per cent pay rise (on top of the…
Hey there! Brief heads up this evening regarding V CAST Video. In short, it will be available for download in the Verizon Channel area of the Android Market. Unsurpringly, Verizon is pairing this news with the World Cup, which starts on Friday. With the video app, you’ll be able to watch Univision (planning to show…
Powered by nothing but pipe dreams and plants (and a smattering of wishful thinking), the Photosynthesis Car would use solar panels and somehow, yes, photosynthesis, to move about town. There is, unsurprisingly, no word on how designers Michal Vlcek and Klavir will leverage the power of plants to run the electric engine housed inside. But…
Ah, quantum computing. When will all your magical, paradigm-shifting awesomeness arrive and save us all from the ubiquitous 1’s and 0’s that define our computing day? What’s this? A “Mainz interface?” What’s that? As physicists at Johannes Gutenberg University in Germany explain it, this early stage, experimental interface uses laser light and an extremely thin…
Don’t you dare describe these prototype glasses as “eye-tracking,” because that’s completely incorrect! The correct marketing buzzword is “lifeblogging.” This is both an exciting and worrisome look into our alternate reality futures. Now, there’s eye-tracking, to be sure, but these are not full-blown eye trackers. Nay, they also contain infrared LEDs, photoreceivers and a camera:…
What’s up with robotic fish appearing on Sundays? Last week it was the named-by-me Mecha Fish. This week? An autonomous “leader fish” that successfully led shoal mates across a small pool: Adorable! But the purpose of this robo fish leader goes beyond novelty however, with designers at NYU-Poly’s Dynamical Systems Laboratory explaining it could be…
